Music

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• Subject Directories
• Internet Sites
• Articles: Indexes and Full Text
• Selected Ebooks
• Print Sources
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Subject Directories

• Worldwide Internet Music Resources - From the Indiana University School of Music, covers all genres
• Librarian's Index to the Internet: Music
• Music History & Studies > Indexes & General Directories

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Internet Sites

• Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music
• The Classical Music Pages
• Classical Net: Guide to Composer Data & Works List
• Enjoyment of Music Textbook - Register for a free password.
• Michigan eLibrary > Detroit Music History
• Mutopia Project - free sheet music in public domain
• Musicals101.com: the Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV, and Film
• Ricci Adams’ Musictheory.net – Tutorials about music theory (requires Macromedia Flash)
• Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary -- Glossary of music terms with audible pronunciations and QuickTime pictures

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Articles: Indexes and Full Text

• Fine Arts and Music Collection (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac)
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• General Reference Center Gold (Infotrac)
  •  On-Campus
  • Off-Campus
• Pendergast, Sara, and Tom Pendergast, Eds. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000.
  This is a full-text reference title from the Gale Virtual Reference Library.
  • On-Campus
  • Off-Campus

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Print Sources

• To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
• blues (music)
• concerto
• Gershwin, George
• music appreciation
• music -- 20th century

• Selected Reference Books
•  Nettl, Bruno, ...[et al.] ed. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. New York: Garland, 2002.
  OR Reference ML 100 .G16 1998

  AH Reference ML 100 .C69 2008 [Concise version]

• Randel, Don Michael, ed. Harvard Dictionary of Music. 4th ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
  AH, HL, OR, RO Reference ML 100 .A64 
• Sadie, Stanley, ed. New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.2nd ed. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 2002.
  AH, OR Reference ML 100. N48
• Slonimsky, Nicolas, ed. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. New York: Schirmer's Books, 2001.
  AH, HL, OR  Reference ML 105 .B16 2001

• Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
• M 5 - 1490 Instrumental Music
• M 1495 - 5000 Vocal Music
• ML 159 - 3799 History of Music, including biographies of composers
• MT 40 - 86 Analytical Guides (how to listen to and understand musical compositions)
• MT 90 - 146 Composition, including rhythm, scales, melody, harmony, modulation, counterpoint, improvisation, orchestration

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